We're Still Here...and November

We're still alive and well. It will come as no surprise that we've moved.

Again.

We now live in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Christmas City, USA.

Sam was contacted about a transfer to the Honeywell site in Allentown. We really like it here so far and have made many great friends. 

Here we are

We're excited about the location because we are about 45 min from Hershey (the chocolate city), only about an hour from Philadelphia, just over an hour from NYC, 3.5 hrs from D.C., 5-6 hrs from Boston, 7-8 hrs from Sam's brother in Montreal, and we can still drive home to my parents in Ohio in 8 hours. Plus, Matt and Amber Hadfield just moved to Jersey, and we got to go visit them on Sunday. It was so good to see them, and it only took us 1:45 to get there! We are looking forward to lots of fun weekend trips!

It's been a while since I've posted much about the family. I think Emmitt lost our camera cord after Halloween, and it took me a month to realize that I could just put the SD card into the computer.

I don't have a problem-solving mind.

After that I just really didn't feel like blogging, so I didn't. I'm ready now, so I've decided that I will just post some highlights from each of the months I've missed. Today I'll cover November 2012.

NOVEMBER

We made the yearly Thanksgiving tree adding to it every few nights until it was nice and full.

The leaves of our tree pulled double-duty this year:

Mila's preschool had a harvest party. Since it's a Christian preschool they wanted to focus on Heavenly Father's gifts to us instead of dressing up as superheroes or whatever. Mila was a fall tree. Paper leaves weren't the best idea, but I already had them for our tree and the whole pack was $1, and that's about what I wanted to spend on this costume.

Emmitt got in on the games too.

 These two would maul each other with hugs every. single. time. we'd pick up Mila from school. The girl next to Emmitt was also a tree.

A less rumpled-looking tree.

 My oldest sister, Terra, came to town with her family from Vegas for Thanksgiving. It was a crazy week since all the grandkids were together. We had a huge bonfire one night. It was awesome because our shredder broke, so I had tons of papers to burn.

Sam and Emmitt folding paper airplanes to fly into the fire.

On Thanksgiving Day, we held the First Annual Family Turkey Trot. The kids made t-shirts. This is Mila with hers. The race ended up being fun but quite chaotic. The adults ended up jogging around just trying to keep all the kids together.

Swag Bags. I love how turkey is spelled "turky" on the bags!

My parents pulled a prank on the little ones, and as my dad was carving the turkey, he pulled a smaller chicken out of the it (of course being very animated and dramatic about it). The kids were floored!

All 10 grandkids in birth order. 

Mila made this at preschool. I believe these really are her top three. In that order.

It's good to be back!